Ezra 7:20

7:20 The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, ¹  you may do so from the royal treasury.

Ezra 4:13

4:13 Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury ²  will suffer loss.

[7:20]  ¹ tn Aram “may fall to you to give.”

[4:13]  ² tn Aram “the treasury of kings.” The plural “kings” is Hebrew, not Aramaic. If the plural is intended in a numerical sense the reference is not just to Artaxerxes but to his successors as well. Some scholars understand this to be the plural of majesty, referring to Artaxerxes. See F. C. Fensham, Ezra and Nehemiah (NICOT), 74.